Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchArtur Gruszczak and Sebastian Kaempf, "Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 249
This handbook provides a comprehensive, problem-driven and dynamic overview of the future of warfare. The volatilities and uncertainties of the globa…
1 year, 11 months ago
Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
Episode 142
The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standar…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jerry Brotton, "Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" (Penguin, 2024)
Episode 376
North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting …
1 year, 11 months ago
Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
Episode 84
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Salem Elzway, postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at University of Southern…
1 year, 11 months ago
Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
Episode 19
It’s the UConn Popcast, and in the second of our series on Thinking Machines we consider Karel Čapek’s “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (1920). Čapek’s pl…
1 year, 11 months ago
Brian Groom, "Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World" (Harpernorth, 2024)
Episode 137
Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the …
1 year, 11 months ago
Richard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024)
Episode 22
Painstakingly researched and written by football-obsessed writer and experienced game journalist, historian, and documentarian Richard Moss – author …
1 year, 11 months ago
Jamie Hakim, "Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 29
Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, sa…
1 year, 11 months ago
When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
Episode 238
Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton University Press, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, which ex…
1 year, 11 months ago
Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 80
Technology has surpassed religion as the central focus of our lives, from our dependence on smartphones to the way that tech has infused almost every…
2 years ago